Background

Scenario of the Blogosphere

The internet and blogging blurred the lines to some aspects of human communication. Some would rather confine themselves surfing and chatting over the net rather than engaging themselves in human interaction.

Other than that, the blogging world has become a venue for many to voice out their true emotions without limitations. Internet users are now not only receivers but also senders of whatever information they wish to send. There are increasing debates whether bloggers could be considered journalists.

However, this project will not concern the legal debate whether bloggers can be considered journalists. Technically, bloggers can be considered journalists. And increasingly, many journalists do blog where they are unrestricted and unregulated, wherein they are free to air what they wish to say without the limitations of the editors. However, we will not question the legality of blogging but rather look upon the morality of the bloggers and their content. By definition, journalism is the reporting or photographing or editing stories for one of the media. To some extent, blogging can be considered journalism for its contents include stories, opinions, videos, or photos which are put in one of the new media, which is the internet. With RSS (Really Simple Syndication), blog contents are easily transmitted to the other users like any other news content. Since the internet is highly unregulated and freer than other media, the abuse and misuse of this freedom with the crass, offensive and sometimes obscene content proves to be a threat to the possible readers of their content.